جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "business improvement district" در نشریات گروه "هنر و معماری"

The growth of sub-urbanism in recent decades has led to the weakening of inner-city centers and the destruction of the social life of these centers. The most important consequences of evacuation of urban centers are economic recession, population evacuation, unfavorable urban governance, reduced demand for purchases and lack of infrastructure investments. Therefore, the revitalization of urban centers, as the beating heart of cities, plays an important role in improving the quality of residents’ lives. Business Improvement District (BID) is one of the most successful methods with an economic approach to urban centers and is expanding around the world. The aim of the present study is to measure and extract the drivers of improving business districts in District 6 of Tehran with a futures research approach. This research is applied in terms of purpose and uses a combination of documentary and survey methods. Moreover, in terms of nature, based on a new method of future research, it is analytical and exploratory taking a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. The statistical population of this study includes 15 managers and experts in the field. The results indicate that the key drivers affecting the creation of business environment in District 6 of Tehran have not been identified. Also, two-dimensional factors such as good urban governance, municipal performance in providing services and facilities, private and public sector investment status, quality of buildings and materials in the housing and construction sector, etc. have a very high capacity to become key players in the system.

Nowadays, city centers are facing with decline in function, whilst in the past; city centers were focal concentration and also a place for special events and always took into consideration as the most important part of city. For passing this situation, renovation and rebuilding of these centers are a required issue. Amongst, Business improvement districts (BID) method is one of the newest effective strategies in modernized renovation that is used for reviving the city centers. Purpose of this article is evaluating and explaining conformity of this method in Uremia city center and examining effective factors for increasing the quality of life. Research method in this article is descriptive-analytic. Method of data gathering includes library studies, questionnaires and field observations. Sampling way is based on simple random sampling method and target community is selected from residents, merchants and travelers to this area. Sample's volume were 238 unit and questionnaires controlled by using Cranach’s Alpha Reliability and validity is confirmed by using Bartlett's test and KMO index. Data obtained from questionnaire were analyzed by using T test, Regression and path analysis. Research results confirm the using of this method for the revitalization of Uremia city. Not being single-dimension of BID method and promoting of business condition through improvement and increasing life quality in the selected domain are the main reason in compatibility with this method. In addition, the findings show that physical factor has the strongest role in improving life quality in the city center.